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Swedenborgian Church, Lyon St., Presidio Heights

Very near the convention center this section of street is being replaced by a system of heating to keep snow and ice from forming and thus presenting a hazard to visitors, particularly those unaccustomed to the danger of slipping and falling during the long periods of dark in the winter season.

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Princess Diaries High School, Lyon St., Pacific Heights

The intersection of Lyon and College is at the lower right corner of the photo. Since it is still 30 minutes before the noon hour, the lunchtime crowd is not yet filling the streets.

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There is ALWAYS a damned car parked in front of it, or close enough to ruin a picture.

Tintype San Francisco

It 's really true, there is no place like home. On Sunday we parked our car at Pacific Height and walked down the stairs along Lyon Street. The view of the Bay was unbeaten especially when there was a veil of coastal fog still lingering around. You could hear the ship horn in the distance. How romantic that was! We saw this couple walking down in front of us. When they got to this spot, they just couldn't help but hug each other. I asekd my wife, "We haven't really left Barcelona, have we?"

Saturday morning for some people includes a routine of visiting this section of Lyon Street, where a bakery, a coffee shop, and a butcher (making hot breakfast sandwiches on Saturdays from spring to fall). Driving (gas-powered) cars from home to shops is what makes this routine easy and attractive. If, for some reason, all urban transportation were limited to public conveyance or one's own feet (or bicycle), then only a fraction of the people in this photo are likely to persist in their Saturday routine.

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The brick wall has a stainless steel hook to loop one's dog leash to. It seems this pooch is accustomed to this routine of the human ducking into the building after tying the hound to the hook.

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opposite the Swedenborgian Church in Pacific Heights
2100 Lyon Street, built 1906-09, architect: Edgar Mathews
San Francisco


photo circa 1993 - San Francisco 1993_02

home of the late Dianne Feinstein
once home of the manager of the Bethlehem shipyards, Joseph Tynan
№ 2460 Lyon Street (1917)
Pacific Heights, San Francisco


photographed ca. 1990 - San Francisco 1990_34

Lyon Streets comes to an end at the Grand River, shown here. For many months the earlier concrete pocket park has been removed and new cement has been shaped and poured to replace it. What the final form will be is unclear from this photo. But a year from now there will be little memory of the construction stages and only the final appearance will be visible. So it is worth recording some of the steps along the way to document the labor and techniques that go into the finished work.

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Steps lead to views and San Francisco is known for its steps and views. While not as famous as other view points, the Lyon Street Steps are worth the climb in either direction for its view over Pacific Heights and to the Palace of Fine Arts with the Bay beyond.

With the 7 digit limitation, many vanity plates abbreviate the word or words. This one seems to mean "Give And Take," or "being willing to contribute and not always be grabby." There are usually two or more sides to many things in life, so don't always press your own advantage to the loss to others; be willing to lose in petty and in grand compromises.

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When things came to a standstill early in 2020, the idea of "bubbles" to self-contain groups in their dining popped up. Pretty soon the builders got busy and these huts popped up. Whether the tail of 2023 and the rest of the cold season into March and April 2024 will see better or worse Covid variants remains to be seen. Revised vaccines are in stock now, and public campaigns so far have not caused much motivation to get a dose with time enough to react before Thanksgiving travels and mingling. Many have been infected in part or completely and lived to tell the tale. Others have died.

It sounds like a dystopian novel but some people are fatalists and simply want to live as before, without inconvenience of packing a mask, sometimes self-testing, getting well at home but probably with no paid time off. The most callous mindset is "let the devil take the hindmost," the weak or elderly or infirm. If it is my time to die, it is out of my control. But there are others with the opposite worldview, too: make an effort NOT to transmit virus to others, particularly the very young and very old, and anyone else with suppressed immune systems. If this mix of careful and careless and uncaring will persist as chronically as the virus mutations, then the net amount of social anxiety is only likely to rise.

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1387 Oak Street
a,k,a, 124 Lyon Street
facing the Golden Gate Park panhandle
San Francisco

built by the Rountree Brothers (Moses E. Rountree, James Rountree, arrived from Texas circa 1887)
architect: William H Lillie
wood shingles, plaster used
built 1891
now: 1 rooms, five units

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20230702_160421 pixlr the panhandle

1387 Oak Street
a,k,a, 124 Lyon Street
facing the Golden Gate Park panhandle
San Francisco

built by the Rountree Brothers
architect: William H Lillie
wood shingles, plaster used
built 1891
now: 1 rooms, five units

20230702_160421

Lyon Street (near Bush) , Zion District, San Francisco

20230605_180047 Lyon Street

Contruit en 1915 par Bernard Maybeck lors de l'exposition internationale de Panama-Pacific